Purpose of Fasting - Bringing into Order

The whole purpose of true Bible fasting is to
crush and bring in order the indulgence of the flesh. Ok? So if you’re just
doing it to find favor with God, you’ll just do it as a work. It’ll be a work
unto you and the whole time you’re fasting you’ll be dreading not eating. And
you’ll be just making it to a point and going, “Oh God, I’m so glad it's Friday
and I’m coming off my fast.” That’s not fasting at all, when you do that. And
we’re going to talk about it and I’m going to bring it into right perspective.
Because if you’re just fasting, abstaining from food, and suffering your whole
way through going, “Oh my God,” trying to avoid every picture of food, every
billboard of food, every smell of food, you’re not in that grace of fasting.
There’s a perspective that will keep you from all of that, that will actually change
everything. You’re not just trying to not eat for a week. That will accomplish
very, very, very little. It will just make you hungry.1